Thank you very much for this brilliant analogy, and the point well taken.

However, we want the Big Mac and Fries from time to time, and I am planning to do further experiment on making that special sauce to spicy up the burger.

So far, my finding is that it is difficult to mix audiophile grade equipment with normal electronics (e.g. AE)... if everything fails, I might just get AirDAC or Sonos Connect to use the Airplay.

Quick question. Seems like AirDAC is over 2 times more expensive than Sonos Connect, and while we are only interested in digital output, leaving out the DAC capabilities out from the equation, would the quality of digital output of both gears be any different?

Thank You~

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